The AAS has provided below a forum for individual seeking assistance in connection with submitting a session proposal.

How to use the forum:

If you have a session you would like to propose and need a few more individual to participate - click the Sessions Organizers seeking Participants forum. Next, click 'Add a Topic' or reply to a posted topic

If you are an individual and would like to participate on a session in Washington, D.C. but do not have enough contacts to form a session proposal, click Participants Seeking Sessions. Next, click 'Add a Topic' or reply to a posted topic.

Please make sure to include the following information:

Your name, affiliation and how you would like to be contacted.

The topic of your proposed session or the topic of your paper

The geographic area of study that best represents this topic

Important note for anyone using this forum. Posting session or paper information here is not a substitution to submitting a formal proposal using the online application form. It is your responsibility to make sure the organizer of a session receives the information requested and/or your responsibility to ensure the information is submitted in a timely manner.

We are searching for a discussant for our panel. The tentative title is: "Displayed Homeland, Displaced Home: (Re)contructing Chineseness in Cold War Signphone World," and our panelists include: 1) Mung-Ting Chung (PhD candidate, UT- Austin), who studies the Chinese Student Weekly (1952-74), which was subsidized by the American NGOs but had gradually given rise to the voices of the leftists and localists. 2) Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen (PhD candidate, UW- Madison) examines how a classical China is portrayed and circulated in the Hong Kong huangmeidiao film Love Eterne (1963); 3) Claire Danju Yu (PhD candidate, Stony Brook University), who works on Qiong Yao’s literary works and cinematic adaptations; 4) Insky Chan (PhD candidate, UCLA), who works on transnational films in East Asia.

If you are interested in joining this panel, please contact us at the following email address: Jasmine Yu-Hsing Chen: chen427@wisc.edu Mung-Ting Chung: mtchung1011@gmail.com